School: Baile Aodha (B.), Inis (roll number 13418)
- Location:
- Ballyea, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Mathúna
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- The famine years were 1846, 1847, 1848. The way they used sow the potatoes long ago or around the years of the famine was first they would get a spade and a ball of soogans to make a line or to direct them straight, Then they would dig at both sides of the line and make a furrow. Next they would put one [?] on the centre, and one under the sod at both sides. There was a street of house on the road I come to school and they all died of Cholera in the famine year. There were three times more people in my district than there are now.
- Collector
- Willie Neylon
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Miss May O' Neill
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 19
- Address
- Killerk East, Co. Clare